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Today, at the last minute, State Rep. Greg Murphy pulled his name from the Primary sponsors of Carolina Cares legislation (HB 655) just prior to the bill's hearing in the State House which coincides with Election Day for the 3rd Congressional District Primary Runoff
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, is confident President-elect Trump would overturn any unlawful agreement to fast-track the state's Medicaid program
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 12:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, the GOP has officially surrendered their advantage in the area of taxes. After so many decades montyhallas the low – / anti-tax party, the GOP majority on Jones Street pushed through increases in the state gasoline tax.
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 12:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Here we go again. The conservatives (read Republicans) are taking a beating again.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 3:19 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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In 2010, we rose up en masse in protest against ObamaCare. We gave the US House to the Republicans, and closed the GOP's deficit with the Democrats in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 7:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Commissioner Al Klemm, the acknowledged chairman of equivocation, expressed that he would 'not insult his Democrat friends', in any strongly worded resolution begging for their bipartisanship in correcting ObamCare.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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From time to time it is most important to be resolved on integral forces affecting our people, as Beaufort County's governing body, to speak as one voice to our representatives from North Carolina that serve in our nation's capitol.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 12:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Moving is a hassle. We like the new house, but my kids and I are still living partially out of boxes, figuring out where the light switches are, investigating the source of strange new noises, and otherwise stumbling around.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2013 @ 8:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's junior senator Kay Hagan, up for reelection in 2014, supports a two-month delay in the enrollment deadline. So do several other Democrats running for election or reelection to the U.S. Senate next year. Their colleague, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, supports a yearlong...
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2013 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health care is likely to be the second-biggest issue in next year's midterm elections (the condition of the economy will be #1). But while North Carolina Democrats and liberal activists would like the management of the state Department of Health and Human Services to define the health care issue...
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 10:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am sure 9th district congressman Bob Pittenger's PR people are resorting to heavy drinking by now.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Richard Burr doesn't have time for the folks at Heritage Action, but he made time this week for Rotary.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 3:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Richard Burr, Renee Ellmers and Bob Pittenger - take note. It would appear that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are blowing smoke up your posteriors.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 1:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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What about state House Speaker Thom Tillis - the establishment favorite currently running slightly behind Brannon in polling matchups with Hagan?
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 7:59 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Imagine if Samuel Adams had said: "What's the point to standing up to the British? I mean, King George is the king. He's in control.
Published: Saturday, August 10th, 2013 @ 12:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Seriously folks, there are much larger issues to bear here today in our broken federal government; however ....
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 1:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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So, whose news reports can we believe. In time gone by, we had available a myriad of news services.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 4:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Rob "Mr. Politics" Christensen says North Carolina politics has gone from "polarized to paranoid."
Published: Monday, June 24th, 2013 @ 9:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the state's largest business organizations is keeping a close eye on two federal lawsuits challenging the authority of the IRS to collect Obamacare taxes in states, including North Carolina, that did not set up state-run health insurance exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 1:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Washington, pols from both major parties are trampling each other to make it to a microphone and /or camera to denounce the Internal Revenue Service.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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South Carolina legislators have passed a law making it a crime for anyone in The Palmetto State to enforce the implementation of ObamaCare
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 12:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Politico -- hardly a right-wing rag -- has broken a story about a bipartisan group of politicians seeking to exempt themselves and their staffs from the impending implementation of ObamaCare.
Published: Saturday, April 27th, 2013 @ 10:00 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina state House has pushed through legislation -however watered-down it may be -- requiring voters to show ID at polling places.
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 9:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Tax subsidies in Obamacare could push at least half of privately insured, lower-income North Carolinians into the federal health exchange and off of private coverage, critics of the federal health reform law say.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Instead of DOING their constitutionally-mandated job of passing a budget, the GOP-dominated House has decided to play along with the Ruling Class's never-ending cycle of continuing resolutions -- guaranteeing another "crisis" at the end of September.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 4:02 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The establishment and the MSM have worked hard to slander and defame Tea Partiers in the eyes of their low-information audiences. The Washington Post -- yep, THEM -- suggests that the GOP needs to treat The Tea Party like Slick Willie Clinton treated that skank Sista Souljah back in 1992.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 5:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina surgeon and physician groups are squaring off against hospitals in a regulatory reform battle with potentially hundreds of millions of taxpayer and insurance dollars at stake.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate voted Monday to block expansion of Medicaid -- a key component to the implementation of ObamaCare in NC. The move put the Republican majority in the General Assembly's upper chamber at odds with the state's new Republican governor.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 8:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Republican majority in the North Carolina Senate has put its money where its mouth is and introduced legislation allowing the state of North Carolina to "opt out" of the implementation of ObamaCare.
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 10:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Here’s a shocker: The mainstream media is biased. The mainstream media here in North Carolina has taken a hit in recent years.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 12:31 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's interesting to see what's left of North Carolina's mainstream media thoroughly inspecting Pat McCrory's transition team, agenda, and appointees.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 1:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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